Miggy, founder of FLan.tf and Ferocitygaming has passed away.

Hello, my name is Soxxie. I am in the former owner of the APP servers and a contributor to the Ferocity Gaming Community. I'm sorry to say that I'm here to tell you that Miggy passed away this evening at at 10:15 EST November 14th, 2017. I spoke with three members of his family not long ago who told me he died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones.

Miggy had been fighting a very hard fight against cancer for the last three months. In the last few weeks, he was diagnosed as terminal and sent home from the hospital into Hospice Care.

Miggy was a community server owner, contributor, an anti-cheat mod, and the developer of the anti-cheat sourcemod plug-in IntegriTF2. Please remember the compassionate and amazing person he was. Anyone who was close with Miggy and would like to send their condolences or message to his family, feel free to add me on Steam. You can also post them here. I will make sure they get to the right people.

Update: His family is planning his service, they hope to live stream his service. And are planning a memorial to honor miggy's online life.

So many of you have messaged me wanting to know more about Miggy. His name was Stephen Chavez, he loved mustangs and weiner dogs. Lived in Miami, and had an eye for aimbotters.

If I can get personal, Miggy is responsible for saving my life. A year ago, I was going through a very down time in my life, and I had the intentions of killing myself. If it wasn't for him and a few others, I wouldn't be here. He was a friend that even through the worst of times, was there for me. I will never forget our 6 years of friendship Miggy, whether it'd be through Steel 6s, or Tabletop Simulator, or our talks that we had. I love you Miggy. Forever in my heart.

I never met him and to this point, have never heard of him but now learning about him, I wish I had. It's unfortunate to see such an integral part of TF2 fall to cancer. As a community admin of many years, I hope I can follow his footsteps and I appreciate everything he's done, condolences to his family and friends who made him who he was, rest in peace Miggy, we'll miss you.

The first time and only time I met miggy in person was at GXL 2015. He was a happy go lucky dude, and we had a bunch of laughs over the course of the day. In the evening, when I went back to my hotel, I saw miggy in the parking lot. He drunkenly walked up to me, and whispered to me: "hey man, want some flan?"

We had a running joke between the two of us that he'd be bringing the flan party to GXL in the weeks prior. Up until that moment I thought he meant it colloquially in reference to FLan. As it turns out, he actually brought packets of powdered flan and made it in his hotel room with some buddies.

We spent a lot of time together, working on anticheat measures for UGC and other leagues. His passion for the competitive scene and how he could improve it was truly remarkable. He was one of the few who went through with his visions for improvement, and gave it his all, to incredible success. Rest in peace, miggy.

Miggy was an inspiring figure and I loved our talks together. We bullshitted about events, formats, cheaters, and all sorts of ways to push the community forward.

FLan.tf was one of the few North American TF2 events to have happened outside of ESEA LANs. I know from my time with FITES LAN, that running consistent events is such a big deal. Getting people together for a good time builds massive community bonds that can last forever.

Though I wasn't close with miggy, I did talk and work with him many times. Simply put, a class act. Was fun to chat with and went out of his way to help me if he could. I have nothing but good things to say about the dude and he will be missed. RIP miggy

Miggy is a memorable guy. At my first flan I felt really out of place but miggy made a lot of efforts to include me into conversations and stop by me despite working to keep the event going smoothly.

I remember at the end of the event I stuck around to help him pack up tables and chairs, and while we all sat on the floor he talked about how he felt overworked and worn out more than ever before that year. In hindsight, It may have been early incarnations of the cancer. I had someone inform me of his passing only minutes after it was confirmed, and I hoped it might have been wrong. You'll be missed, man.

This past summer I was talking to miggy about playing for his team, and after knowing him for about a year and a half, he was the chillest dude ever. It is unfortunate that we have lost 2 gamers from Flan, and probably some of the most influential ones.

From Flan 2016 there are the memories of him shouting after the amazing snipes from Funke, and of course celebrating B4nny's early birthday after the first night,

Miggy was genuinely a really amazing person and I appreciated what he did for our niche community. I wish I knew him better so I could type a more detailed post, but he'll be missed. You did a lot to for us.

I didn't know Miggy personally, but I know he was responsible for a lot of good things in the competitive tf2 community. I've also heard from those who did know him personally that he was a good person, and helped a lot of people.

The only experience I ever had with him, if I remember correctly, was one time when he made a video about a hacking sniper who was playing against my highlander team. He had a good eye for cheaters and the community will miss him for that, among many other things.

This man was amazing. As one of the former owners of APP along with Soxxie and Jp-sama I cannot tell you how often he came to rescue on various things.

He always wanted to help people. I remember when I got falsely vac banned and he was ready to go to Valve HQ with me to get it sorted out. Not many people would be willing to go such lengths to sort out a problem that did not even directly involve them.

As someone who has lost to many people to Cancer I understand exactly what his family must be going through right now.

Miggy, If you can see this from where you are I love you bro. You will be heavily missed.

Thank you for posting this. I’m a really close friend of Stephen’s and saw how quickly this disease progressed. I’m not very good with words but his mom told me today how many texts messages she has been receiving from his gaming community and his family is touched by the outpouring of love and support y’all have been providing them. I’m so glad to see that he touched so many peoples lives and that he was as good a friend online as he was in person. I believe his parents are going to be setting up a fundraiser in his name in lieu of flowers, so if there is any interest I will be more than happy to send the link once it’s set up.

Andhareall and I were both with miggy in his last weeks and knew him since high school. His mom has tasked us with setting up a celebration of his life once everything settles. I've read some comments and wow, I didnt know how much he did for his communities. While nothing is concrete, I would like to set up a slideshow of sorts filled with comments by his community, and what you would like his less tech savvy family and other irl friends to know. Please feel free to drop any other ideas down.

This (and the fundraiser) is a really great idea . . . to the point where, once you nail down the details, you should make a new thread and ask the moderators for a sticky, so the whole reddit community can see it. I'm sure you'll get a great response.

I'm sorry for your loss. Hope you can find inspiration and peace through this task to help you with your grief.

God damn miggy. He did so much for APP and UGC with out even wanted to be acknowledged for it. Always was fun to try and chase him down on 2fort before he could snipe you. I just talked to him like not too long ago about some random server hosting bullshit. God damnit.

I came to know Miggy when we started TF2Stadium. He was one of original members of the development team, and put his heart and soul into anything TF2. He knew virtually everything about the technical aspects of the game, and helped us in countless ways during development. Miggy would spend countless hours on the anti cheat team, analyzing demos tick by tick with unparalleled expertise (his videos on cheat detection are incredibly amazing). I still remember our late night mumble meetings, and how his humor would have the entire mumble frequently erupt in fits of laughter. Being and contributing whatever I could to the competitive TF2 community has profoundly changed my life, and I will never forget the part Miggy played in it. For a guy of his dedication, talent, and personality, the community has lost an invaluable member, and I can only imagine the grief his family must be going through.

I never knew Miggy personally, and I don't recall playing on a server he owned, but from what I've been seeing everyone else say, he was a great person to be around. Hopefully his legacy will last for years to come.

Now my grandfather has been diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma, and another gaming community I am a part of us still somewhat recovering from the death of an influential member within said community, Scott "The Iceman" Seibert who passed from cancer back in September.

Hopefully sometime in the (very) near future, we will have a full cure for cancer, and we can finally kick its ass once and for all.

From our first DM, Miggy was a kind, quick-witted, ambitious individual with huge dreams for the future. He was humble and sweet and took pride in everything he did for FLan. We hit it off immediately. For 3 brief months of on and off talking, we talked about our future careers and how TF2 had helped shaped them. Soon life got in the way and we fell out of correspondence, but he was always a familiar presence on my Twitter, where we kept in touch most often. I'm still in shock that he was taken from us so quickly. The world will seem a little less bright now that he's gone, but the skies above have gained one of the brightest stars that they could have gotten. He was well loved and will be sorely missed. I wish I could have known him longer.

Rest in peace, Miggy. He was my friend for six years, ever since we were wee babies playing on a 24/7 2Fort. Watching him grow into a large community presence humbles me. It's thanks to him and a few others that I gained the confidence to pursue my higher education, and the maturity to be a good person. I'll never forget his confidence and energy. He was and always will be Gary Oak. We all miss you.

I was never into the competitive scene of this game so I didn't know much about him; a year ago I heard that he was responsible for that big VAC-ban wave that same year, and know that he's also friends with someone I have in Friends (Cornish Gamer Hen, someone who passed away on March 1 this year). Seeing the many comments about him properly describe the wonderful kind of person he was for this community and to people struggling with depression, and that's something I and many, many others really appreciate. My condolences to his family, friends and people who knew him. Rest in peace Miggy, thank you for everything.

can't believe he died, he was needed in this community, without him we wouldn't gotten that big lmaobox Vac ban, rest in peace miggie ):, first internethulk died, and now miggie, this is just sad i was honestly shocked.

I had the pleasure of meeting Miggy at Flan few years back, only to discover he lived a few blocks away from me IRL. He was incredibly passionate about TF2 and genuinely cared about those he was playing with. He's fighting the aimbotters in heaven now. Rest in peace, friend.

This song makes me think of you Miggy, "is it raining in heaven, do you want us to cry, everywhere the broken hearted, on every lonely avenue, no one could reach them, no one but you, one by one, only the good die young, they're only flying too close to the sun, life goes on, without you" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLKyaOLb2Fs

Miggy, you sound like a wonderful person. No, an amazing person. Wish I could've got to known you. But Cancer got a random crit, and this subreddit has hated it ever since. Didn't expect to cry today, but here I am. RIP, Miggy. RIP.

This is such a tragedy, the TF2 community has lost one of the most dedicated and passionate person its ever seen.

I first met miggy at GXL 2015 and he was such a funny friendly guy. Even after having a car door, accidentally, slammed on his hand on the way to Wendy's, he was still positive and cracking jokes. Then after GXL he was always a nice guy to shoot the shit and joke around with. Im gonna miss his random snapchats of his wiener dogs goofing around.